{"id":3326,"date":"2022-12-30T01:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T09:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/30\/2022-in-review-june\/"},"modified":"2022-12-30T01:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T09:05:38","slug":"2022-in-review-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/30\/2022-in-review-june\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 in review &#8211; June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<p>Music, travel and experiences company Pollen\u2019s downward slope to eventual collapse saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/06\/01\/pollen-lays-off-over-150-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">150 members<\/a> made redundant in the UK and the US. This was despite raising $150m (\u00a3123m\/\u20ac141m) in a Series C funding round in April. June would also see the company fail to pay its workers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Before Queen Elizabeth II passed away in September, the British monarch celebrated her Platinum Jubilee in June. More than 12 million people tuned in to watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/06\/06\/millions-enjoy-queens-platinum-jubilee-concert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebratory concert<\/a>, which took place at Buckingham Palace. Roughly 22,000 people, including specially invited key workers, attended in person.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following the Champions League final ticketing fiasco in May, which saw large crowds of Liverpool fans unable to enter the Stade de France in Paris, the French Government\u2019s Olympics envoy recommended the widespread <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/06\/13\/french-authorities-urged-to-deploy-blockchain-tix-following-champions-league-fiasco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deployment of blockchain ticketing<\/a> and other enhanced security protocols for events.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Resale site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/06\/27\/viagogo-fined-e23-5m-by-italian-communications-regulatory-authority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viagogo rounded off June<\/a> with a \u20ac23.5m (\u00a320m\/\u20ac25m) fine from Italy\u2019s communications regulatory authority AGCOM for breaking the country\u2019s rules on secondary ticketing. Viagogo was given a week to remove the illegal listings from its site by AGCOM (Autorit\u00e0 per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni). An investigation found that Viagogo had listed tickets for 131 events at inflated prices of almost six or seven times more than face-value.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div class=\"tax-cat-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-cat\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Filed under<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Awards<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Tags<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Stadiums<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/12\/30\/2022-in-review-june\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Music, travel and experiences company Pollen\u2019s downward slope to eventual collapse saw 150 members made redundant in the UK and the US. This was despite raising $150m (\u00a3123m\/\u20ac141m) in a Series C funding round in April. June would also see the company fail to pay its workers.\u00a0 Before Queen Elizabeth II passed away in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,80,2955,1752,2877,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain","category-champions-league","category-industry-news","category-pollen","category-queen-elizabeth-ii","category-viagogo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}